Mamoud Kamara
Early this year, Mamoud Kamara, age 15, came to our Freetown base with his father and older brother. Three months earlier Mamoud had mangled his lower right leg as passenger in a […]
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Hawanatu Fofonah
Hawanatu Fofonah, age two, was happy to receive two dresses and two pairs of shorts a few days before Christmas. Hawanatu has been living with her mother, who is one
Mariama Koroma
Mariama Koroma was born under less-than-adequate conditions, with no trained midwife. The delivery left her with a large umbilical hernia. At age 2 and ½ Mariama stopped walking after her spine
Kaday Conteh
Kaday Conteh lost her mother when she was three. Her father, a poor farmer, had never been able to send Kaday or her two older sisters and older brother to
Kadiatu Conteh
On October 25, when Africa Surgery first saw Kadiatu Conteh, a 27 year-old mother of one, we feared that the large tumor that was blocking most of her mouth might kill